All Hail Debian, King of the Web Server World

There’s nothing like a popularity contest to elicit a wide array of opinions — particularly those of the opposing kind — but recently an example appeared in the Linux blogosphere that seems to be something of an exception.

“Debian is now the most popular Linux distribution on web servers,” proclaimed W3Techs in a blog post from earlier this month, and just as notable as the news itself has been the paucity of dissenting opinions.

A few mildly divergent comments were expressed, to be sure — both on the W3Techs blog and on PCWorld — but for the most part, Linux geeks appeared to be largely in agreement.

Could this be a historic first? Linux Girl took it upon herself to learn more.